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Ernest Dimnet has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's…
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are…
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is…
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare…
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of…
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Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.…
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
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